Dante Kelly

Lead AI Solutions Engineer for an AI-powered goal achievement platform spanning personalized feed generation, gamification, notifications, and cross-platform user experiences.

• Own engineering across multiple core product surfaces including web app experiences, personalized feed logic, notifications, rewards systems, and internal operational tooling
• Build and ship production AI-backed workflows using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, and AWS, integrating LLM capabilities directly into user-facing product experiences
• Design and evolve multi-service architecture spanning frontend, backend APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and internal dashboards across 5 active codebases
• Drive fast iteration while maintaining code quality, operational reliability, and scalable system design in a lean team setting

Lead engineer and architect for SmartSites, a multi-tenant CMS + hosting system powering 200+ dental practice websites.

• Architected the full SmartSites platform (Astro, Sanity, Netlify, Vercel), creating a unified multi-tenant system that cut infra costs 75% and reduced deployment time 60%
• Designed and implemented front-end architecture achieving 90+ Lighthouse scores and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across all client sites
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, automated QA, and observability tooling that reduced production issues 35%
• Integrated OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs into production workflows, automating content development for 50+ blogs & sites/month using internal RAG pipelines
• Mentored developers and reviewed code across the department, raising code quality, consistency, and velocity

Lead full-stack engineer supporting Silicon Valley startups, building high-performance JAMStack systems and secure enterprise platforms.

• Led development of a PCI-compliant audit platform (React + AWS Lambda + Node/Go), used by major financial and insurance firms
• Built high-performance React applications used by Apple, Adidas, and Disney, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% through serverless modernization
• Architected a scalable Go REST API with strong typing, zero-downtime deployments, and observability instrumentation
• Improved CheddarFlow's user experience and core performance, achieving a 12% improvement in page load times
• Mentored junior developers in TypeScript, React Hooks, state management, and testing

Worked across startups and early-stage ventures to ship MVPs and production web applications.

• Developed Wittit, a React Native mobile app with Firebase and real-time messaging, earning 4.9-star reviews in app stores
• Built a React + Headless Shopify eCommerce solution that sold out inventory in under a week
• Designed UI/UX systems and shipped full-stack MVPs that enabled multiple founders to launch, validate concepts, and secure early customer traction